ASUS A8N-SLI PREMIUM Owners!

[orion23]

Hi,
Does anybody with an A8N-SLI PREMIUM have multiple SATA drives connected to the Silicon controller (the red connectors) in a "NON RAID" function?
I need to know if this board or Silicon controller can operate as a regular IDE controller.
So far I cannot get my 2 SATA drives to be detected in windows.
Please help!

 

[Dragon41673]

I know you're speaking about using the red connectors...but did you try the other one and did you download the newer Nvidia drivers from their website?

 

[orion23]

The Nvidia controller works fine, it detects my 4 drives.
The problem is with the Silicon 3114, I cannot get it to detect 2 drives in a non raid function. If I try to install the SATA IDE driver, windows doesn't find enough information to configure the device. If I force the installation, I get an error code 10 "The device cannot start"

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[Dragon41673]

Hummm...I remember when I did my windows install AFTER installing all the proper drivers from the CD for the MB...windows update had an updated driver for the Silicon 3114 I think. Might have been the Marvel Lan...try checking that just incase or go to the website and download the newest drivers from ASUS

 

[orion23]

I got it working finaly!
Thanks to all who helped in any way.

Asus does not provide a "NON RAID DRIVER" for the silicon controller. It is not in the installation CD or on their website for download.

I spent hours with their technical support and they didn't help either.

The solution was pretty simple actually:

If you want to use the Silicon controller to run SATA drives in a standard function (NO RAID) you have to use the F6 option during the Windows installation and use the SATA IDE Driver which you can download from the Silicon Image website.

Windows detected the drivers during setup and after a complete installation. I now have 4 drives under the Nvidia controller and 2 more under the Silicon controller.

However, I have a yellow mark under the device manager for this controller, and I am afraid to update its driver since everything is working the way I wanted it!